Revealing mistake: The scenery 'lines' are quite visible on the backdrop as Ricky practices his swing, with Fred indicating this was shot in-studio.
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19th Jan 2025
I Love Lucy (1951)
10th Mar 2024
I Love Lucy (1951)
The Benefit - S1-E13
Revealing mistake: There's suddenly an upright piano in the living room where Ricky's desk used to be.
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Suggested correction: There's nothing sudden about it. The rearranging of furniture between episodes occurs often, and would only be a problem if it happens within a scene. From the very start of this episode, the card table is already at the center of the living room, with the couch pushed back toward the wall, and the desk is behind the couch (holding telephone, etc), up against the wall where the piano usually is in other episodes. Ethel asks Ricky about the sheet music on the piano, and he explains he's been working on a musical number for the show at the Tropicana. So, for this episode's ongoing musical storyline, the positions of the piano and desk have been switched. Nothing whatsoever makes it a revealing mistake. This occurs again a few episodes later in Breaking the Lease.
8th Jan 2024
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Revealing mistake: The mom on Doc's table quite breathes, and her bottom lip moves slightly during the autopsy.
1st Dec 2023
The Waltons (1972)
Revealing mistake: Her scalp 'shifts' slightly when Olivia fusses with her curly 'do, indicating it's an obvious wig.
27th Oct 2023
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Revealing mistake: After Phoebe is hit in the head with the tree log, she falls to the ground, and Angela cuts out her tongue, but no blood drips from Phoebe's mouth.
5th Oct 2023
The Waltons (1972)
Revealing mistake: The wall in Jon-boy's room 'jiggles' a bit as Erin is confiding in Jon-boy about Maryellen, indicating it's either a set piece or an office partition instead of an exterior wall.
23rd Sep 2023
The Waltons (1972)
The Fighter - S4-E3
Revealing mistake: The Woman spectator at the boxing match is wearing an obvious 1970s fashionable floppy sun hat and dress, instead of an appropriate 1930s style.
12th Sep 2023
American Horror Story (2011)
Revealing mistake: After Hannah draws vials from the suspected bespeckled killer, he rushes through the hospital ward with no visible markings or needle pricks on his arm.
29th Mar 2023
Clue (1985)
Revealing mistake: Near the end when Miss Scarlett points the pistol in Col. Mustard's face, over his response to her revealing everyone's secrets, you can hear the trigger click twice, like she'd accidentally shaken the grip, or an accidental pause or prop failure.
4th Feb 2023
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Revealing mistake: Obvious lip liner on Michaela in the end scene.
29th Jan 2023
Family Affair (1966)
The Day Nothing Happened - S2-E20
Revealing mistake: The snowman is an obvious Styrofoam props the kids have set up in the family room, as the fake snowflakes fly right off it during the kids play, including the white patches beneath the body.
20th Jan 2023
The Waltons (1972)
Revealing mistake: Throughout most of the episode, The Car is a standard black with chrome trimming. But at the end it's suddenly beige when Johnboy and the kids are polishing it for their first ride.
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Suggested correction: At the end it's not "suddenly beige." Mid-episode Mary Ellen mentions a family project to, "Design you a new-looking car" and Erin adds, "We can paint it." Soon John-Boy says, "I'd like to paint it a nice dignified shade of tan." In the penultimate scene John-Boy drives Hyder and Martha Rudge back home. Time passes offscreen. It cuts to the final scene with Mary Ellen and Erin placing their new cut/sewn seat covers in the newly painted tan car, and nobody is "polishing it for their first ride."
14th Jan 2023
Family Affair (1966)
Revealing mistake: When Cissy is at the piano as Buffy sings and dances for Uncle Bill, only her arms move up and down instead of across the keys, indicating that's it's an off-camera person actually playing the tune. (00:16:30)
4th Jan 2023
Family Affair (1966)
Revealing mistake: Obvious studio setting with the fake overlapping grass in the park while Cissy and the boyfriend talk. (00:18:30)
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Suggested correction: In which episode does this occur?
26th Dec 2022
Three's Company (1977)
Revealing mistake: Studio lighting on Janet and Chrissy's tent at night, in the middle of the woods. (00:21:12)
18th Nov 2022
The Brady Bunch (1969)
The Voice of Christmas - S1-E12
Revealing mistake: Carol's hair is quite noticeably shorter in an almost 'Twiggy' bob. When in the prior episode 'Vote for Brady' it was past her shoulders, curled into a very fashionable bubble flip. Not that she wouldn't have visited the stylist after the campaign. Just a very noticeable difference.
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Suggested correction: The episodes were aired out of order, so this episode did not immediately follow the previous episode in production. Plus, this was a Christmas episode and Carol was preparing to sing in the holiday service, which is just one possible reason why she'd change her hairstyle.
10th Oct 2022
Roots (1977)
Part 1 Roots: The Saga of An American Family - S1-E1
Revealing mistake: The young men are all in a lineup, preparing to be circumcised, when the camera pulls back to an obtuse shot of the lineup, whence they're all wearing African drawers. Either for modesty purposes, or purely a filming error.
2nd Sep 2022
The Waltons (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Maryellen runs into John-Boy's arms (after running away) Richard Thomas (John-Boy) breaks character as he looks into Judy's (Maryellen) eyes, by swallowing hard. Like a guy would do, when he's close to an attractive girl. Then later covers his groin with the cast, when John and the kids check up on him. The two young actors playing Jon-boy and Maryellen crushed on each other behind the scenes.
Revealing mistake: When Lestat bites Louis for the 3rd time at the gazebo, Lestat raises his arm to allow his blood to drip into Louis' mouth. A metal looking thing is visible inside Lestat's wrist, indicating that's probably a prop arm.
Revealing mistake: When LeStat is playing the piano, his lax movements do not match the vigorous tune that's being played.
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